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Espresso (316)
- ratingRated Excellent
- inspection score8 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 3, 2026
- address1250 1St Ave S, Seattle 98134
Is Espresso (316) clean?
Espresso (316) is currently Rated Excellent from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on June 3, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Espresso (316)?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 3, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
- ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
When was Espresso (316) last inspected?
Espresso (316) has 6 inspections on record going back to August 26, 2021, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 3, 2026 | Rated Excellent | 8 pts |
| March 27, 2025 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| September 19, 2024 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| July 8, 2023 | Rated Excellent | 16 pts |
| July 2, 2022 | Rated Excellent | 0 pts |
| August 26, 2021 | Rated Excellent | 3 pts |
Espresso (316) vs Downtown
Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,707 tracked restaurants — 1,450 clean, 129 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 1,707 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 17% of them.
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How Seattle grades restaurants
Public Health — Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot — it averages the establishment’s recent routine inspections, so one bad day does not sink a consistently clean kitchen and one good day does not rescue a bad one. Inspectors score violations in red points for things that directly cause foodborne illness and blue points for everything else; around 45 red points triggers a mandatory re-inspection. Newly opened or recently changed spots can show as Not Rated until enough inspections accumulate.
Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated June 3, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.